A retrovirus known as human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is known to cause a number of diseases, including inflammatory diseases of the eye. Recently, researchers in Japan have investigated an antibody treatment ...
Feb 21, 2023
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An international panel led by a pediatric neuroimmune expert and co-director of the Neuroscience Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has established new criteria for properly diagnosing myelin oligodendrocyte ...
Feb 16, 2023
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Nightly use of 0.05 percent atropine eye drops compared with placebo results in a significantly lower incidence of myopia and a lower percentage of patients with fast myopic shift at two years among children aged 4 to 9 years ...
Feb 14, 2023
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An international team of researchers led by Lithuanian scientists provide additional evidence that intracranial pressure plays an important role in normal-tension glaucoma, which accounts for up to 50 percent of all glaucoma ...
Feb 13, 2023
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Research led by scientists at St George's, University of London, has discovered 119 areas in the genome that help to determine the size and shape of blood vessels at the back of the eye, and that an increase in "twisting" ...
Feb 10, 2023
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More than 43 million people worldwide are blind. In the past 30 years, that number has increased by roughly 50%. Most blind people are born with normal vision and lose their sight over time, due to medical causes or an accident.
Feb 9, 2023
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Most U.S. adults are unaware of warning signs of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and treatment advances for the condition, according to survey results released by the American Society of Retina Specialists.
Feb 8, 2023
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While early treatment of diabetes-related eye disease slowed progression to severe disease, it did not improve visual acuity compared with treating more severe disease once it developed, according to a clinical study from ...
Feb 7, 2023
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Findings from an international research study involving Irish and Spanish patients reveal a candidate drug and biomarker that could be used to manage uveal melanoma.
Feb 2, 2023
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At one time or another we have surely heard or read that the excessive use of screens is causing an increase in cases of nearsightedness. Moreover, it is said that this relationship is direct, meaning that screens are responsible ...
Feb 2, 2023
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